By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

THE Guam Police Department yesterday said no one has been arrested in connection with the mimicked mixed martial arts fights organized on the George Washington High School campus.
While confirming the ongoing investigation, GPD, the Guam Public School System, and the Attorney General’s Office did not release further comment as of press time, saying they do not want to jeopardize the investigation.
Education Superintendent Luis Reyes could only say that GPSS and GPD now have a better picture of what happened on the school campus in connection with the videotaped staging of mixed martial arts fights.
Reyes said a “zero tolerance for school violence” was in place even before a report of the fights came out.
On Tuesday night, the Guam Education Policy Board met to discuss the incident on school grounds.
GEPB board chair Peter Alexcis-Ada questioned the absence of school officials in the area of the school where the fights happened.
According to Ada, the tape was played for the rest of the GEPB members and school principals.
Ada said the principals of the school gave their side of the story.
“They admitted that it must have been a mistake,” Ada said. “Kids are arriving as early as 6:15 a.m. so they opened one of the school gates. The thing is that the school aides are not at work yet at that time. This thing happened in the early morning when no one was around. I have spoken with one of the local fight promoters of the adult MMA and we are going to work something out. They sounded like they were in full support of eradicating such events on school grounds.”
Ada called the fights on the campus “well orchestrated.”
“They timed it. They put the gloves in a ukulele, and when it was time for the fight, they took them out. Then they played the ukulele. If the instrument was played loudly, that meant that someone was coming. There was a manager, a time keeper, and a promoter. There was no referee,” Ada said.
Ada and the rest of the GEPB members are worried that with the last day of school approaching, more events such as this will occur.
“There will be heavy monitoring on school grounds. We are going to have a ‘code red’ and everything on campus will be strictly monitored,” he added.